Process of renovating plush or cloth



2 dirt of any natureare first removed by apply 25 gredients are used: lartaric acid, oxalic acid,

0' tartaric acid. The parts of the different c0m- Unrrnn dramas 'Pa'rnn'r PPlQEG JOHN BESANSON, OF TITUSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HERMAN STERN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PROCESS OF RENOVATI LPZECIFECATZON forming part of Letters P Application tiled May F,

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1', JOHN BESANSON, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Titusville, in the county of Crawford and State of 5 Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Cleaning and Dyeing Plush or Oloth, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improve ments in cleaning and coloring dirty and faded plush or cloth, and is designed, principally, to be used in cleaning and coloring the cloth or plush on railroad-car seats, which operation can be done without removing the cloth from the seats. The process is also applicable to cloth or plush, whether loose or secured to any object. lhe seats and backs, having been preferably removed from their supports, are thoroughly dusted. Any spots or stains or ing a compound of soap, oxalic acid, and ammonia. Having thoroughly cleaned the fabric it is then subjected to the coloring process. If it be desired to color red, the following inboraX, alum, and sulphite of cochineal; to color blue, acid blue, sulphuric acid, borax, alum, and tartaric acid; to color green, me talline green, piperic acid, borax, alum, and

NG PLUSH ORCLOTl-l.

atent No, 309,12 dated December 9,1884.

1854. (No specimens.)

pounds are combined in their proper proportions.

The cleaning and coloring compounds are to be applied with hot or cold water.

It is not essential that a brush be used in 55 the application to loose fabrics, as the processes may be then used without one. After the cloth has dried it may be brushed, and it will then appear as new.

The above-described process is an improve- 0 inent over the one protected by me in Letters Patent No. 195,334, September 18, 1877.

Having described the invention, What I claim is The withindescribed process of cleaning 5 and dyeing cloth or plush, consisting, first, in removing all dust; then all dirt and stains with a compound of soap, oxalic acid, and ammonia; then coloring with a compound of tartaric acid, boraX, alum, and the desired acidated color, after which the article is dried and brushed, cold and hot water being used in applying the compounds, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN BESANSON.

\Vitncsses:

J. J. HOLDEN, 'l. POUPENEY. 

